Nikolai Kuznetsov

Painter, graphic artist, collector, teacher. Born in the family of a wealthy landowner called Dmitry Kuznetsov at the estate of Stepanovka near Odessa in the Ukraine (1850). Studied under Pavel Chistyakov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1876–80). Member of Savva Mamontov’s Abramtsevo circle and the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1883), founding member of the Fellowship of South Russian Artists in Odessa (1890–1922). Academician of painting (1895), full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1900). Taught battle painting at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1895–97) and grease painting at the drama courses of the Imperial School of Music in Odessa (1909). Painted genre scenes from the lives of south Russian landowners. Emigrated to Serbia (1920). Died in Sarajevo (1929 or 1930). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1881). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1881–1916), Fellowship of South Russian Artists (1890–1919), Odessa Society of Literature and Art (1898), 36 Artists (1902), Salon d’Automne in Paris (1900s), Society of Independent Artists in Odessa (1916–20), World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893), Exposition Universelle et Internationale in Brussels (1910) and Play and Passion in Russian Fine Art at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (1999).